Yep I am bringing it back from the dead... I can't figure out for the life of me WHY/HOW a tailight housing energizes everything in the keyed "START" position with the keys no where near the ignition. I can't see any difference between the two tailight housing that I have nothing is broken or burned. I pulled fuse 12, 13 no change. I removed fuse 15 for stop/directionals and my brake lights are still energized, but when pressing on the brake pedal nothing else energizes. The only time the brake lights work as they should is if the light switch is off. Turn the park or headlights on they stay on constantly. I have removed every piece of trim to look for wire added wiring and removed all and repaired original wire that was tapped into. Removed added trailer wiring, but nothing seems to change anything. If I need to get a new tailight I will I just cant understand how that would cause any/all of this. I keep putting off getting a new one cause it has me going nuts trying to figure it out. Anymore advice or opinions out there. My head is on fire.

 

One more thing can someone please post a link for all the ground locations please. I have had the worst luck trying to download the RAVE manual. The most recent I downloaded it, but now it's waiting on me to get a big enough CD to hold the info. Thanks

Matt

 

I had my rover do the same thing all it was. was a 60amp fuse under the hood it was the yellow one check all of thim.

 

There's 40 pages of ground distribution, can't upload them. I keep RAVE on my hard drive, quicker than the CD...

 

ok have you checked all of your fuse cus on mine it was doing the same thing. was runing just fine and thin nuthing it was a maes and if i hit the breks the dash wood light i have found out fast with a land rover look at small be for going big the fuse that had me all in a bunch was the ignition one under the hood so look there hope this helps

 

Ground files attached.

 

Thanks for putting that together Savannah. I think what most of us need is something that tells you where physically the grounds are.

As an example, the page on the tail lights says Y5-41 which equates to E-401 for the ground. Where is E-401 physically located on the chassis?

I have found the chassis ground from the battery and where that is spliced into. Also found one that comes off of the pass side exhaust manifold and runs to the frame just ahead of the pass footwell. There's also a big strap under the power steering plumbing that goes to the engine block (I think). That's the list we need...

 

 

Did the alarm you removed have a remote start function?

 

Download Daemon Tools lite (it's free) and then you can create a virtual CD and just load the iso image from your hard drive.